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- Alison has gone to camp this week,
and by next week we'll all be at Origins, so this site won't
be updated again until July 7th
Batman Begins :)
Batman begins by
tearing Gotham apart. Good.
We needed a change.
 
Where
the Stoners Live (i.e. the NSDUH Report on
Marijuana Use in Substate Areas)
"I found Fluxx at a local bookstore. My eight-year-old
son loves playing card and board games with me, but usually bounces
from one to another. Since we started playing Fluxx, he loves
it and almost always wants to play it. So we had to look for
blanxx and expansions." -- Joseph of Allegan,
MI
   
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Obituary for a Soda Machine |
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 Back
around 1994, we bought an old soda machine. The coin mechanism
was busted and it had been retired from commercial use partly
for that reason, and but mostly because it was obsolete. Even
so, it was working fine for our purposes! We put it in the doorway
to our game room, and we rigged it up so that you could push
a button instead of putting in money and out popped a free soda!
Having a free soda machine in your house is a great way to
entertain. Our guests could always be sure they'd get their choice
of a lovely cold beverage whenever they visited Wunderland.Earth.
That will continue to be true, but now our guests will need to
look in the fridge instead of going to the trusty Lovely
Beverage Machine for refreshment.
The machine's death was quite sudden and unexpected... it
was working fine one day, and completely dead the next. It just
flipped the circuit breaker, but our vending machine expert (Vending Plus, inc... thanks
Steve!) knew instantly what this meant: the compressor was shot,
again. And while we have, more than once in the past, paid more
than it was worth in to keep the machine going by having the
compressor removed, rebuilt, and replaced, we're not going to
this time. It just doesn't make sense anymore, now that we're
preparing to move
to Canada.
But it sure has been great fun having this machine in our
lives. As you can see, we Loonied it up a bit, covering it with
daisy stickers and creating this psychedelic marquee panel. We
also randomized the contents a bit... some slots (like Coca-cola
and the surprisingly popular plain seltzer water) contained just
one thing, but the other 3 were a grab-bag: Diet, Caffeine-Free,
and Juice.
Now of course, the question is, how do we dispose of it? I
guess if we can't find anyone who wants it, we'll have to pay
someone to haul it away to a dump. But then again, maybe someone
wants it! Perhaps when we get back from Origins,
I'll put it up on eBay
for a dollar, and we'll see if anyone wants to pay us for the
privilege of hauling it away...
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"A White House whistle-blower has released documents
showing that an administration official, Philip Cooney, has been
doctoring U.S. government reports to weaken the evidence for
global warming. [...examples...] Cooney isn't even a scientist.
Before Bush hired him as his chief of environmental policy, Cooney
led the American Petroleum Institute's campaign to cast doubt
on global warming." -- The Week,
June 24, 2005, page 17 |
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"I cannot understand why it is so critically important
to prevent sick Americans who receive relief from smoking marijuana
from having this form of treatment, yet it's OK to sell a known
carcinogen to smokers. The most recent news in 'Marlboro Country'
is that the huge settlements levied against the tobacco companies
have been reduced. Drastically reduced. First the
government wanted to reduce the $280 billion in fines down to
$130 billion. But last week on The News Hour, Matthew Myers of
the Foundation for Tobacco Free Kids, told the story of an appalling
lapse of ethical integrity during the latest tobacco trial, which
has been going on for the past eight months. After hundreds of
days of evidence presented by the government proving continued
rule breaking by the tobacco companies, The Department of Justice
( which had stood firmly behind the expert testimony of its foremost
advisor in this case, Dr. Fiore ) did an abrupt about face
at the 11th hour and reduced the suggested $130 billion fine
to a mere $10 billion." -- Susan Hanley
Lane, "Will
The Real 'war On Drugs' Please Stand Up?" |
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"If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause,
then it can regulate virtually anything, and the Federal Government
is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers... In
the early days of the republic it would have been unthinkable
that Congress could prohibit the local cultivation, possession,
and consumption of marijuana." -- Supreme
Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in the dissenting view of their
June
6th medical marijuana ruling |
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